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3 Hottest Posts Everyone's Reading

The Innovative Educator

Read that post and discover why the data around the population charter schools serve is misleading, the truth about student performance at charter schools, evidence about their lack of transparency, what the true intent of charters was meant to be, and more. There are two sets of rules. Read the post to learn more.

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4 Amazing Google Tools to Help You Engage Your Students

EdTechTeam

Only the student’s work will end up on the Drawing itself, and this means that if the student embeds or downloads this Drawing to use somewhere like an eportfolio, etc., From collecting data to charting results by student or group, the possibilities are endless. Once students collect the data, then the real learning can begin.

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Nampa School District 131 becomes first in Idaho to implement the itslearning LMS

eSchool News

According to Dr. Nicole MacTavish, assistant superintendent for teaching and learning at Nampa SD, it was the system’s ability to centralize so many resources, data, and processes – and interact with other district systems – that sold them on itslearning. “We

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Testing and the future of education: Anya Kamenetz on Future Trends Forum #6

Bryan Alexander

Now, data-driven testing is enormous and growing, which gives rise to important questions: who owns testing data? what happens to user privacy and data? The tool gathers data down to the level of a student’s individual private browsing and search history, both on school premises and elsewhere – i.e., at home.

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5 Tips for Using Google Apps to Go Paperless

Gaggle Speaks

Use Drive as a document repository and to gather data from Forms. Sites can also be a great place to manage student ePortfolios. Here are five ways to use Google Apps for Education to go paperless: Try only using Forms instead of paper surveys and questionnaires. Schedule sports practices, room bookings and tests using Calendars.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). I had two measly slides for ePortfolios, the main thrust of which was “go to AAEEBL !”,

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A Day in the Life: Google Apps for Teachers

EdTechSandyK

Science Experiments - Use Google Form to collect data. Several groups can contribute data to the same spreadsheet. Can then publish data to the web for review or extended learning. Sign Up Sheets - Post a spreadsheet on the web where parents can sign up for a time to come to a conference, etc.

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